In 2013, over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo. Needless to say, it was a great year for us.

We're looking forward to similar greatness in 2014. We have a lot of big things planned for this year that we hope will address a lot of the excellent feedback you have been giving us for some time. So please stay tuned.

We also are continually focused on growing the DuckDuckGo community. Join us at duck.co to help shape your search engine.

Well, the other side of that is the types of ads they let through. They get one chance... if an ad is obnoxious, slows down my computer from flash, auto plays sound, or does anything similar... back to the bin they go.